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Here’s How The Market Will React To Next Week’s Government Shutdown: Lessons From The Past | ZeroHedge

As we noted earlier Monday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat (or something out of something), as he scrambles to avoid the fourth potential government shutdown in a decade before an anticipated September 1st drop-dead date.

Any House bill would still need to be reconciled with a Senate bill that would likely raise spending levels.

In the event McCarthy can't convince Freedom Caucus House Republicans to agree to a short-term 30-day (more…)

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Kunstler: Party Of Chaos Is “Certainly Trying To Provoke Something Like Civil War” | ZeroHedge

Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,

Boldly Into The Chaos

Everybody I talk to feels a gnawing tingle of dread in their livers and lights as our world tilts into the season of darkness. The Party of Chaos rules solely on the basis of insults to its citizens. They are certainly trying to provoke something like civil war, something they can label “white supremacy,” as if that would justify declaring a state of siege — an emergency suspension of rights to (more…)

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Operation Choke Point 2.0: How US Regulators Fight Bitcoin With Financial Censorship | ZeroHedge

Authored by Peter Chawaga via BitcoinMagazine.com,

This concerted effort, later labeled “Operation Choke Point”, targeted a wide range of business categories, including ammunition sales, drug paraphernalia, payday loans, dating services, pornography, telemarketing, tobacco sales, and government grants. This broad application of financial exclusion ultimately prompted multiple lawsuits and federal investigations into the conduct of both the DOJ and the Federal Deposit Insurance (more…)

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